Crossword clues for hatchway
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hatchway \Hatch"way`\ (-w[=a]`), n. A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door
WordNet
Usage examples of "hatchway".
He had one hand below him and managed to push the hatch back as they descended, Avelyn rolling right over the hatchway, the deceivingly agile powrie hopping to its feet atop the now-closed portal.
Lawrence as his helmet rose through the hatchway into the axial corridor.
It would be some minutes before the apparent confusion resolved itself into a trim, severe pattern, a clean sweep fore and aft, the guns cast loose, their crews standing by them, every man at his station, sentries at the hatchways, damp fearnought screens rigged over the magazines, wet sand strewn over the decks.
The cry of a parson untimely roused came up through the hatchway, where they were laying the fearnought screens and wetting them.
Zuckuss had to remain standing in the hatchway behind Fett just to exchange a few words with him.
At the cockpit hatchway, Boba Fett halted and looked back down at the Trandoshan.
As Ganner stood gaping helplessly, the puckered mouth on the wall suddenly yawned into a hatchway that opened on an enormous vaulted hall beyond.
With a dirty look up at Teldin, Gaye crept to the deck hatchway, stopping only as she was ready to descend.
They go over the interior surface of the walls, breaking off projections and filling up the interstices with small stones, and then they smoothly plaster the walls and the inside of the hatchway with mud, and sometimes whitewash them with a gypsiferous clay found in the neighborhood.
A new group had exited the hatchway: three Noghri, a sullen-looking Lak Jit, and Mara Jade, her red-gold hair glistening in the sunlight.
Sturge shrugged his shoulders and walked forward to seek Ben Jope, whom he found by the forecastle hatchway engaged in slicing a quid of black tobacco.
No sooner had they jumped through the open hatchway and hit the water than the helicopter ascended and wheeled away over Ploce Beach towards the airport.
Burnout and Rainmaker stood shoulder to shoulder, throwing everything they could muster through the hatchway, sweat running down their cheeks.
The foot of the mast supported the partition which separated the two cabins, which were reached by two hatchways let into the deck.
As soon as they saw him looming in the dim glow of the hatchway the master and young Ricketts moved silently over to the larboard side, and Jack resumed his solitary pacing from the taffrail to the aftermost deadeye.